GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and…
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The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…They were having lunch with friends, and the voice couldn’t deal with crosstalk or delays in the audio — it tried to fill the silences. And most importantly, the voice sounded human…
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
…effectively, and we’ve seen the transition internally, particularly amongst our developers where we have transitioned from using AI tools to assist coding to them, a portion of the engineers directing teams…
LexisNexis CEO: The AI law era is here
…tool, called Protégé, to go beyond simple research, and help lawyers draft the actual legal writing they submit to the court in support of their arguments. That’s a big deal, because…
xAI
…Elizabeth Lopatto May 4 We are now looking at Brockman’s other financial dealings. Cerebras, Stripe, CoreWeave, and Helion all appear on his financial disclosures. All four have deals with OpenAI. I…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief has had a busy couple of months after promising “the return of Xbox.” Asha Sharma met with publishers at the Game Developers Conference in March, and has…
Twitch
…Starting today in the US, “we’re giving all streamers access to some of our best monetization and community building tools including Bits, subs, emotes, badges, and Channel Points,” Twitch says . Twitch…
BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
…In addition to including ads directly in its products, BitTorrent would also bundle third-party tools with its installers and get a small cut when someone installed a browser toolbar or a…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…I think today, if you look around the landscape, it’s a lot more about deals, partnerships, business development, and things like that, and that can be really transformative for a company…
Uber
…Uber Robert Hart Nov 27, 2025 Uber laid off contractors developing AI tools for Google. The workers, part of Project Sandbox, were one month into an expected three month stint, Business Insider…